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Using Discussion Boards

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Discussions enable you to share ideas anytime, anywhere. A Discussion Board may contain several forums created by your instructor to organize conversation topics. Within each forum, instructors and students (if they are permitted) create threads. A thread includes an original post and all of its replies.

Access discussion boards by clicking a link your instructor has included in a content area or a link in the left menu (your instructor may choose either of these options for you to access the discussion boards).

Your instructor can set up the link one of two ways:

If the link takes you directly to the forum that is assigned (more common), then move on to Step 3.

If the link takes you to the main discussion board page, which provides a global view of all forums in the course, move to Step 2.

Select a forum to view its threads.

To create a new thread in the forum, click Create Thread (which means you create the first post for others to reply to). *Note: not all discussion forums may allow students to create a thread. If you are not able to create a thread, go to Step 4.

Read and reply to an existing thread by clicking on the thread you wish to read and respond to. When you point to the post you wish to reply to, the Reply option will appear. Click Reply.

On the resulting page, enter a subject heading, then type a message.

Optionally, add a file to your post by clicking Browse My Computer and selecting a file to attach.

Click Submit.

If you view your own post, you may also have the ability to Edit or Delete your post if the instructor has enabled these functions for students in the forum.

If the Subscribe button is made available by the instructor, you can receive email notifications about activity in discussion forums and threads.

Video

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